Yes.
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When do they ripen? Mine has grown pretty quick, but refuses to flower.
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First week of September.
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Would Pai Li grow fine on OHxF 87 or do I need to find Bet or OHxF 97 rootstock?
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It would do fine on ohxf87. It might be necessatly to remove flowers the first few years to get it to your desired height.
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@tonyOmahaz5 Would you be willing to share some scion wood from your Pai Li pear by chance? I’m near Silver City, about 30 minutes from Omaha. I currently have about 7 Asian Pear varieties and would love to add Pai Li to my collection.
I moved to a new house last July. I got a small graft at my new place. Probably won’t have scion wood for a few years.
Okay thanks for the reply and good luck at the new place! I think I’ll try some scion wood from Cricket Hill Garden and see how it matches the descriptions all of you gave. Thanks again!
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Wow that looks tiny, did you thin out the tree?
It looks like that would be a large amount of work.
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Most likely it’s impossible, lets just say 6 of those pears weigh 1 pound. Lets say that the tree produces 500 pounds of pears in a season. That would be 3000 pears a year. A 1/6 reduction would mean removing 500 flowers or fruit. Removing 1/4 of them would be 750 of them.
Commercial grow pear trees may produce that many pears in weight or by numbers. But my backyard trees, I will be happy to get 200 good pears per tree. Is my tree under productive?. How many pears do you guys left on each tree?
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Without any other pears do you think pai li and ya li would pollinate each other?
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I think that 500 pounds would require a non dwarfing root stock, to be planted in the ground, and not too much pruning. Which is what @tonyOmahaz5 appears to do, yet most people like me would prefer a dwarfing root stock. I also think that the soil and the climate to some extent can can cut down on crop size. I myself can not picture ever having 500 pounds of pears on one tree of mine either.
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I think there is so much callery pollen in the air most years there is plenty of pollen around. They are very good producers! The callery seedlings are blooming later sometimes overlapping my early pears like that. It is hard to count on rogue will pears but they do have a place sometimes.
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I am curious, Do you know how many pound of a pear tree produce in commercial orchard in US?
Tricky question and the normal answer is 100 - 300 pounds for a dwarf
How Much to Plant for a Year's Supply of Fruit - The Seasonal Homestead.
The standard tree which i have brought up before yields heavier.
“A pear tree begins to bear fruit when it is about four years old, and may live 50 to 75 years.
• A 25-year-old pear tree yields 1,250 to 2,250 pounds
(570 to 1,020 kg) of pears a year.”
Educators_Flyer_Pear.pdf (1.1 MB)
The standards many advantages and disadvantages , if you want to read more it can be found here
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Like @clarkinks has said that is hard to answer, under the perfect conditions, no disease problems, a full size tree, let to grow to full height, and a high production variety, it’s much more than 500 pounds of pears a year, this one website estimates 1740 pounds of pears on one old enough tree (30 bushels at 58 pounds per bushel), and they don’t say how old of a tree that estimate is for. A Guide to Planting Pears for Deer | National Deer Association
1250pounds vs. 100~300 pounds is BIG difference. Thatis 10 time more! I don’t have deer problem in the suburbs.limited space is my bigger problem besides the squirrels and too far to reach the fruits. But if a standard tree can produce over a ton (2tons in a good year), I would chop down rest of trees, only keep one which produces far enough pears for my family, also makes many my friends happy too. Can you imagine eat2tons of pears a year? The face might turn into a pear shape😂
Now, how tall is the standard tree it was talking about that produces over a ton? 15’?20’?
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